Hello everyone, I'm Alaska with glasses and a microphone. Out of selfishness, today I want to show you a somewhat unpopular movie "I'm Waiting for You in the Rain".
The title of this literary film, at first glance, thought it was about the sadistic love between lovers. Unexpectedly, from the perspective of a pet dog, it has witnessed the joys, sorrows and sorrows of a family of racing drivers for more than ten years, and expressed a dog's thinking about life and death.
Our hero is a golden retriever named Enzo, the same name as the founder of Ferrari. Its owner is a racing driver named Danny. After a certain race, he passed the farm and immediately caught sight of Enzo, who was huddled with his siblings.
Since then, Danny and Enzo have been inseparable, both on the field and at home.
With the assistance of Enzo, Danny and the heroine Eve met. The relationship between the two progressed rapidly, they were soon married, and Eve became pregnant.
But the father-in-law and mother-in-law are quite dissatisfied with Danny, who is always competing in the world, not fulfilling his responsibilities as a husband.
Fortunately, Eve always silently supported Danny's career, and Enzo also silently guarded Eve instead of Danny. With the encouragement of his family, Danny overcame all obstacles and made a name for himself in the racing world.
However, because he focused on the game and neglected to take care of his expecting wife, Danny even missed the birth of his daughter Zoe. All of this paved the way for the tragedy that followed.
With Enzo's company, her daughter grew up healthy and Danny's career was booming, but Eve was diagnosed with a late-stage brain tumor at this time. After the operation, she returned to her parents' house to rest, but she still couldn't stand the torture of the disease, and finally stopped breathing by Danny's side.
The father-in-law has long been dissatisfied with Danny's neglect of the family. After the death of his daughter, his granddaughter needs a stable environment to grow up and competes with Danny for the custody of Zooey. Even at the expense of suing Danny, he tried every means to exploit legal loopholes in an attempt to completely deprive Danny of his custody.
During the prosecution, on the one hand, the court restricted Danny's personal freedom, preventing him from going abroad to participate in car races; on the other hand, the long-term lawsuit exhausted his energy and financial resources, and he would pay a heavy price if he lost the case.
The house leak happened to rain overnight, and Enzo was in a car accident during a night run. Although he survived by luck, his lifespan was severely shortened.
Faced with pressure from all sides, Danny almost gave up. At this time, Enzo stepped forward, tore up the agreement to give up custody, and woke Danny with his attitude.
In the end, the father-in-law lost the lawsuit, Danny regained custody of his daughter, and Enzo died after completing his mission. Compared with "A Dog's Mission 2" and "Little Q" released some time ago, "I'm Waiting for You in the Rain" is actually a "non-mainstream" animal movie. It abandons the creative methods of traditional commercial genre films, and greatly reduces the artificial contradictions and sensationalism. As can be seen from the plot introduction, this movie includes many elements such as racing cars, pets, and families. If we speculate from the perspective of general genre films, racing movies will have the exciting life of racing drivers, the choices at the juncture of life and death, and the thinking about life after the accumulation of time. Most importantly, there are bound to be car accidents and accidents;
Pet movies will inevitably have touching stories between pets and their owners, as well as many hardships in life. The owner must choose between pets and family members, and in the end, most of them will end the film with life and death;
Family movies are even more unavoidable of conflicts among family members, connecting characters with a series of dramatic stories. All of them live like a collection of jokes, and anyone who has watched family sitcoms will understand.
If these elements are simply and rudely stuffed into a movie, it is bound to use a lot of man-made accidents and sensationalism to increase the rhythm. Doing so will most likely make the movie lose its focus and fall into the dilemma of "everything I want to talk about but I don't understand." But have you seen these bloody episodes from the plot introduction just now? No! This film not only accommodates many elements such as racing cars, pets, and family, but also rejects the sensationalism of "human self-exaltation", trying to move the audience through bland plots. The character of the male protagonist is perfect: he is a talented rising star on the field, and in the family he is a gentle husband, a kind father, and an tolerant son-in-law, and there is almost no strong emotional fluctuation in the whole film.
In the family, Danny has the full support of his wife, and his daughter is well-behaved and sensible and never causes trouble. Although the father-in-law never wanted to see Danny, it was human nature. If it were you, would you be willing to hand over your daughter to a racer who lives on the brink of death? In his career, Danny has a friend who assisted throughout the whole process: whether he was looking for a job or taking care of his family, he helped inside and out; even Enzo was so good that he didn't look like a dog: he didn't bite anything or attack anyone. I didn’t roll in the mud pit, I didn’t urinate anywhere, I didn’t even have estrus;
Even luck was on Danny's side: he had zero accidents in his more than a dozen years of racing. What is this concept? Even Ayrton Senna, the strongest F1 driver in history, died in a car accident in the end. Is there such a beautiful life in reality? Obviously not, the director deliberately avoided the trivial suffering and setbacks in life. Because the original author was also a racing driver in reality, a sudden car accident ruined his racing career.
His love for racing has not diminished because of this, but he has conveyed his thoughts about life to more people through creation. At the heart of it is what Enzo said, "A real racer only cares about winning, not worrying about losing". So I would say that this movie is not an animal movie in the traditional sense, but an adult fairy tale. Listening to me, it seems that Enzo didn't play a big role in the film, so let's just delete Enzo and just shoot the life of the racing driver, okay? no. The warmth of the family needs to be maintained by Enzo, and the key turning point has to be helped by Enzo. The sense of existence is low because it is just a dog.
Isn't that what dogs are like? They are taciturn, comfort you when you need them, and wait in silence when you don't. Observe our life as a bystander, but cannot be a participant due to the limitation of the dog's body. The exceptions are Alaska and Huskies, whose presence is so strong that they can go bankrupt.
The key is that the film needs to express the attitude towards life as a racing driver through the mouth of Enzo . Actor Kevin Coster voices Enzo the Golden Retriever. In the second season of the American drama "Yellowstone", he played a rickety old cowboy, and his weather-beaten voice is especially suitable for saying some philosophy of life.
As Enzo himself said, "I am special, like a dog's body with a human soul." In my opinion, it is not just a man, but a great philosopher. I believe that everyone hates preaching: a big living person stands in front of you, and from time to time, some wise sayings copied from the Internet pop up from time to time, chattering about the truth of being born as a human being, it is terrible to think about it. But it is different if it is a dog. Who can resist the innocent eyes of the big golden retriever?
Enzo will be annoyed that he is a dog, unable to say a word to comfort his owner when he is seriously ill; he will also be glad that he is a dog and can hear the truth of everyone; It has witnessed the ugliness of human nature, but it cannot use the truth as evidence in court. Having said so much, the title of the film is "I'm Waiting for You in the Rain", where is the rain? Rainy's first race with Enzo and Danny: "When racing, the car goes wherever you look. When the car is skidding and the racer keeps staring at the wall, he will hit the A wall." These words in the rain express a positive outlook on life;
Rain on the three days when Enzo was accidentally trapped in the house: "A racer can't get mad at another driver because of an accident in the lane. You can only get mad at yourself for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. " Even if he almost lost his dog's life because of the owner's negligence, he wouldn't blame anyone.
Rain on the night of Enzo's car accident: "It's not shameful to lose the game, it's only shameful not to play because you're afraid of losing." This is its final encouragement to the hesitant owner.
Under the rain, Enzo the Golden Retriever silently waited for Danny's life to protect the family: "It was mentioned in a documentary that the Mongolians believed that the dog would be reincarnated as a human after the dog's life."
So at the end of the story, the director arranged the reunion of the reincarnated Enzo and Danny. Many people think that this is a major failure of the film, which makes the whole film fall into a cliché. But I believe that anyone who has raised pets can understand the director's intentions. Eight years after Enzo's death, Danny was already a well-known race car driver, and a young blond boy entered the infield and asked him to sign. At that time, he asked casually: What's your name? The little boy replied: My name is Enzo.
On the spot, my scalp was numb, my tear ducts collapsed, and the emotions that had accumulated for nearly two hours exploded instantly. Although I know that the reason why he is called Enzo may be derived from his father's love for racing, after all, Enzo is the name of the founder of Ferrari. But I prefer to believe in the reincarnation of souls, and that fate will bring Danny and Enzo back together. Finally, two more digressions. Friends who follow my Weibo should know that I picked up a stray cat when I was on a business trip in Shanghai. Due to the long distance and the fact that there is already a little baby at home, there is no way to bring it back to raise it, so I have to post for help.
Unexpectedly, in the early morning of the same day, a young lady contacted me to adopt the cat. I would like to thank the little sister again here, and I hope the kitten can thrive. May every kind person and every small animal be treated gently by the world. That's all for today, goodbye.
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